Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

A dark thought will never lead you to the light because darkness is terrified of light.

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

We're all strange in our own strange way.

Strong people define themselves

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.